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Browsing: Economic Development
Why you’ll pay more at the pump
Wisconsin should be careful when it comes to limiting new technology
The impact of state taxes
Encouraging Growth Companies in Wisconsin
Twenty comprehensive answers to twenty basic questions
Education and training under Wisconsin Works
Wisconsin’s regional economies, 1999-2003
Why building a “new” Milwaukee economy matters to Wisconsin
When then Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson introduced the Wisconsin Works (W-2) proposal in November of 1994, he cited this principle…
Early in the postwar era, Wisconsin was not among the nation’s highest-taxed states, as measured by state and local taxes.1 Relative to personal income, Wisconsin’s tax burden flirted with the “top ten” during those years, but did not reach it. That changed in 1963 when the full effect of sales and income tax increases enacted
The 1990s were growth years for the United States and for Wisconsin. The Wisconsin economy added 461,748 jobs, growing by a remarkable 21 percent over the 1991-1999 period, far surpassing the U.S. growth rate of 13 percent. Unfortunately for some, growth was not uniform across all areas of the state. Employment in Brown County (Green
Over the next several years, there may be no more important issue in Wisconsin than the rebuilding of the Marquette Interchange
Work matters most
Who is leaving the state? Where are they going?
An examination of the implementation of competitive contracting and privatization by Wisconsin’s government
We know that in 1990 there were over 96,000 women on AFDC in Wisconsin. Today, there are less than 8,000.
Wisconsin’s Regional Employment Growth The Wisconsin economy in the 1990s benefited from the long period of growth experienced by the…
When NAFTA was ratified in 1994, we studied the issue an concluded it would benefit Wisconsin. Five years later, we examine our hypothesis and discover that NAFTA works.
A myth that continues to exist in the minds of the public and many a government regulator is the notion…
Inflated claims, meager results
